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I can't. Not before I deal with the 4 metres of steerer.

Rear mudflaps are overrated imo. Make it harder to wheelie the bike up to move it around and are only useful for keeping water out of the face of people on your wheel, and on a functional build, who is that.

Bottom bracket flaps are better

I get you, but this will be ridden causally and touring with my partner and maybe even make it out on some gravel rides (that's what the tiny chainring was for after all). 3rd/scobles/bb flap is a maybe - there are only so many nights a person can spend on mudguards and flaps.

It's not finished but you get the gist of the shape of the thing. I'm happy with cranks, more spacers with less extreme stem, flaps (though one is wonky) and of course the fork.
Various things to hone but I have cans and evenings aplenty so that's no drama.

I kinda like the yellow, red, blue. Serms like a classic bike colour combo.

I'm fully on board with the yellow and blue combo.. Looks almost like the classic yeti colourway.

Thanks, the blue is going to stay, the red is definitely not.
On that note, if anyone has any nice one side spd/one side platform pedals, like these for example:
https://www.wiggle.co.uk/funn-mamba-one-side-clip-mtb-pedals/
I'm in the market

Silver stem and seatpost have this nearing 'done'.

Nice!

A couple more

The bike is just wonderful, it's rolling well enough on tarmac, if a bit a slow when the road turns upwards, and monster-trucks over anything I'm brave enough to attempt. I 'beautified' the stack a bit with some nice bits from nitto, and actually found myself grateful for the low standover on a few rough rides recently.
Excuse the bar angle, it looks pretty ridiculous (especially when the bike is positioned with the front wheel higher than the rear) but works nicely for descending and bridleways.

FD isn't shifting down, I think I need a longer BB to sort it.
Other small jobs, that i'll do in the medium-term:
-try tubeless
-get a bottlecage dropper for the under DT mount
-pedals, always pedals
-revamp guards
-prettier crankset

It has turned out really nice!
The blue and yellow work well together imo and the segmented fork just looks nice.

Part of the reason I want to build my Vagabond back up, is to ride something with a lower standover height.
How is it riding it off road with DT shifters?

Are the mudguards those SKS AL?

Thank you! I don't know whether I'll keep the blue forever but it's nice it being a feature and a bit different.

How is it riding it off road with DT shifters?

It's fun, the process is something along the lines of:
-scope out uphill
-guess gear
-stick with it until I fall off/unclip/spin out

which isn't so far from my experience with bar-ends to be fair. I like that it stops me over-thinking my gearing. Might be frustrating on very long rides when tired and fumbly.

Yep, Edge Al 56 with these stays and a fair bit of hacking and slashing.

The original stays route inside the guard and have bends in them to fit around the lip, making nice lines basically impossible.

I've been riding with bar-ends for quite a while now and I love being able to shift by feel and not having to adjust indexing.
My approach to technical riding is usually to get in the lowest possible gear and pedal it out - it's worked out this far.

I might just go for a hulsroy/Paul Comp mod with a thumbshifter in the middle of the drop bars, when I rebuild my Genesis.

when I rebuild my Genesis.

Sounds like it could do with a thread! I could fancy some kind of more integrated or ergonomic shifter but I like that I can swap bars easily like this

What length BB? Found my box of spares earlier, might have something suitable there

Ooooh that would be great ta! I've got no idea what length this one is - 118mm possibly? Need to take of the cranks to check. I'll let you know.

Your interest is noted, but it is a bit of a slow burner project. I'll probably just ride my other bikes and try to build it up during the winter.

Weekender on this up in Yorkshire a couple weeks ago. Two nights bivvying with lots of hilly bridleway in between.
I'm still lamenting loss of the 'cross bike look' a little but with the big tyres this handled everything admirably.
The luggage worked nicely apart from one small disaster. I'd like side-loading cages but they're generally pretty ugly? Front bags have been replaced with something a little less shiny. The planetx cages on the fork were fine. The Carradice support gave up on the canal on the way home, just before getting back into Manchester - the bolt between the two plates that fit around the saddle rails just sheared clean in two.

Looking good.

Bottle cage droppers will improve the bottle/framebag interface. Topeak make some.

Bottle cage droppers

Great and now obvious solution, cheers!

Charity bike shop pulled through again with some ideal pedals. Nice to be ride of the boat anchor bmx ones but I'll miss them.

The Carradice support gave up on the canal on the way home, just before getting back into Manchester - the bolt between the two plates that fit around the saddle rails just sheared clean in two.

Same thing happened to @TM ! Makes me thing I should replace the bolt on mine before I use it

Actually the threads pulled out of the top half of the saddle clamp. Proper fucked.

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